Music while riding. What do you listen to?

[Woogie]

So as the title says, Is there a particular genre you listen too or avoid? Started listening to music on my commute now and its a varied playlist with around 170 songs on it. I'm starting to learn that metal and punk music should be avoided.

[granty92]

i listen to uk top 40, accidentally put a dubstep song on and then thought i was in the jeffing motogp lol
but generally listen to chilled out stuff really

[Woogie]

Yeah think I may have to break out some more of the chill out albums I have.... Wasn't good this morning lol

[granty92]

no ha i know what you mean it almost makes you feel like you can go 200mph everywhere

[andrewsmith]

Paging YC and Jayneflakes

Anything that would scare your parents and your friends

[Cymraeg_Atodeg]

I don't find that music effects my riding, stupid drivers do though.

I find anything like Metallica, Opeth, Die Antwoord, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Marilyn Manson, AFI, Five Finger Death Punch, Rammstein, QoTSA or System Of A Down are good choices

[Woogie]

I'd probably kill myself listening to some of them.....

[Elliott]

Anything.

My riding is crap enough, music cant change that.

[69fordf100]

Dubstep and metal. For some reason though listening to this makes me real brave. I think it may be time for some easy listening.

[yorkie_chris]

I'm starting to learn that metal and punk music should be avoided.

I disagree!

[21QUEST]

LBC

[andrewsmith]

I disagree!

How you fairing up communting in a van to death thrash metal?

[Jayneflakes]

Paging YC and Jayneflakes

Anything that would scare your parents and your friends

How you fairing up communting in a van to death thrash metal?

Driving to death metal is the best!

I recently discovered Combichrist is great for riding, how ever it is not great for the forum because the names are a little rude and the lyrics are ruder! ;-)

Black metal is also good, blast beats and solos do encourage a more relaxed and peaceful road experience. The wife does not approve of music while riding so I get the look if I want to do it.

Modern pop music though would make me want to crash into the first concrete wall I saw and riding while listening to audio books can be great until you get to the weepy bit, wiping tears out of your eyes when touching 90 can be hard work!

Anyway, bands that I find make a furious ride more peaceful are as follows.

Enslaved
Opeth
Dissection
Watain
My Silent Wake
Slayer
Combichrist
Zyklon
Whitechapel
Deicide
Pink Floyd

[sniff]

I listen to the little vvoices in my head telling me to go faster!!! :p

Or some of this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VLaXoRRdk
Or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK1mLIeXwsQ

[bladesuk1]

I recently discovered Combichrist is great for riding, how ever it is not great for the forum because the names are a little rude and the lyrics are ruder! ;-)

someone else's who knows combichrist? yay! awesome band... saw 'em supporting rammstein, once upon a time. unbelievably good.

i like a varied playlist - i've got capoeira tunes (traditional brazilian tribal stuff), classical spanish guitar (e.g. rodrigo y gabriela), rock, goth, industrial, and metal. generally, anything that's a good mix of dance and rock works for me - celldweller, icon of coil, vnv nation, apoptygma berserk, stuff like that. however, i also love the more classic rock-style stuff like black stone cherry, danko jones, pink floyd, iron maiden, black sabbath, and so on.

end of the day, the music kinda melts into the background as the ride progresses, but i like having a soundtrack as i ride ;)

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[speedyandypandy]

I've stopped listning to music while riding the bike, it just makes me go stupid fast, and I like staying around fast speeds, I'm not fond of knee scraping on open roads, and I can't be bothered with slow music while driving.
But Prodigy - Hotride is a good song while driving :smt093 Mustach - Mine is also good.

[femaleacid]

Driving to death metal is the best!

I recently discovered Combichrist is great for riding, how ever it is not great for the forum because the names are a little rude and the lyrics are ruder! ;-)

CombiChrist are awesome to listen to! And faderhead as well, not as heavy and crude as CC but still get you in the mood especially TDZV.
God help if a police officer stops you and CombiChrist - shut up and swallow is playing *rolls eyes*

But yeah, heavy/classic rock for me. If I listen to anything like dubstep or trance it sets me off and makes me want to go faster, even when Im a passenger!

[DJ123]

Disney, Aqua, Spice Girls, Atomic Kitten & of course Classical.

What ever is on my phone/ipod at the time, i won't listen to Prodigy though, that's how my first car met its end :lol:

[femaleacid]

Disney, Aqua, Spice Girls, Atomic Kitten & of course Classical.

You missed out boyzone.

[andrewsmith]

What ever is on my phone/ipod at the time, i won't listen to Prodigy though, that's how my first car met its end :lol:

Fire starter, Breathe, baby's got a temper, Dirt chamber?

Am I close, Prodigy is lethal to drive to; Invaders must die album resulted in some extremely Italian tuning on van

[DJ123]

Fire starter, Breathe, baby's got a temper, Dirt chamber?

Am I close, Prodigy is lethal to drive to; Invaders must die album resulted in some extremely Italian tuning on van


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZVs82NBoM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSZVs82NBoM

Fecking good album, i cannot drive to it, unless i was on a ridiculously long straight in somethig stupidly fast :batman:

Prodigy is great music, but self control is physically impossible. The music will control you!!!!! Hence why i do not and will not listen to it on the bike, i'd die happy. But i would be dead :lol:

[andrewsmith]

Fair point Always outnumbered is hard fast and loud from start to finish!!
This one I now do skip if the remix comes on http://youtu.be/_msxPW_OKgE

10 points for anyone as sad as me, that knows who used this in their advertising for over a year

[DJ123]

Ah i think i know, i want to say BMW?

[andrewsmith]

10 points and award of joining me in the sad git area

[DJ123]

Bowsh, that's me :lol: mega geek

[Roberrrrt]

... Five finger death punch....

yass!

[femaleacid]

The Tron Legacy soundtrack (DaftPunk) is brilliant for bike, but can cause you to be a GP racer.

[Woogie]

In all honesty I don't think it was the music but me just being a bit of a muppet with a new toy. First 2 weeks I was blatting around everywhere and this week I've calmed down. Will try some heavier music tonight on the way home and see how we get on. Off on holiday next week so no riding :( Although stil debating if I should take the car to brum then to bristol then get a train to london then train to Luton or Ride to Brum -> Bristol - > Luton

[monkey]

Metally, rocky stuff.

(Thank God someone changed that thread title.)

[mister c]

I used to listen to this....
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But I sold it, so now I have to put up with this......
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[rictus01]

there's been a couple of threads on this, made me realise I hadn't tried it for a few years, so I tried it last night on the 20 minute run to Soho, I have very good in ear headphones, music set to as loud as I could take (but then the twin Mivv's are offensive, so had to give it a fighting chance), anyway, listening to the doors riders on the storm (laid back beat, but pretty loud), started bike and it pretty much drown out the music, but let it settle and I could hear it if I concentrated, pulled away and it was gone, I don't mean it was drown out again or the bike overwhelmed it, I mean I just naturally zoned it out, a couple of times at lights when I was stopped I caught bit, but at best when actually riding it was perhaps a bit like someone playing symbols just far enough away you can't make out the tune, so generally pretty hopeless, I love listening to my music, but riding is a totally involving experience for me and to do it well I need 100% concentration, as the saying goes "multitasking = the art of doing several things adequately , Focus = the art of doing something well".

Cheers Mark.

[k1ngy SV]

Im disappointed in my scorpion can even with baffles removed i cant really hear it while riding ... though everyone else can.. :rolleyes:

[lordra]

Michael Bolton! I try to keep my music to a minimum so that I can hear the bike, the traffic and horns. But for the most part, I barely hear any music, a bit of bike, and a LOT of wind, in-spite of the in-ear headphones.
Need to switch to Cradle of Filth or Lamb of God to get anywhere! :D